AP Art History: The 250 Image Set
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230 of the 250 required works in the AP Art History image set, each with its culture, date, medium and function, walked through in the ten content areas from prehistory to global contemporary.
- Apollo 11 Stones
- Seven small slabs of charcoal-drawn animals found in a cave in Namibia, among the oldest figurative images known anywhere. The creature has animal legs and possibly human hindquarters.
- Great Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux
- A Paleolithic cave chamber in the Dordogne, France, painted with bulls, horses and deer, some over 5 meters long, drawn in twisted perspective with the body in profile and the horns seen frontally.
- Running Horned Woman, Tassili n'Ajjer
- A rock painting in the Algerian Sahara of a striding female figure with horns, a dotted body and a raised leg, surrounded by much smaller figures painted at different times.
- Beaker with ibex motifs, Susa
- A thin-walled painted terra cotta cup from Susa, Iran, decorated with an ibex whose horns sweep into a huge circle, a band of running dogs and a rim of stretched water birds.
- Jade cong
- A squared jade tube with a circular bore, its corners carved with faces or mask motifs, from the Liangzhu culture of China.
- Stonehenge
- A Neolithic circle of standing sarsen stones capped by lintels, with an inner horseshoe of trilithons and smaller bluestones, aligned to the summer solstice sunrise.
- Tlatilco female figurine
- A small ceramic figure from central Mexico with a single body but two faces sharing three eyes, wide hips and a tiny waist.
- Terra cotta fragment, Lapita
- A sherd of Lapita pottery from the Solomon Islands stamped with a human face inside geometric bands.
- White Temple and its ziggurat, Uruk
- A whitewashed mud-brick temple raised on a stepped platform in the Sumerian city of Uruk, dedicated to the sky god Anu.
- Palette of King Narmer
- A greywacke ceremonial palette carved on both sides with Narmer, wearing the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, defeating enemies, the earliest use of many Egyptian conventions.
- Statues of votive figures, Square Temple at Eshnunna
- Gypsum standing figures with clasped hands and huge inlaid eyes, buried under the floor of a temple at Tell Asmar.
- Seated Scribe
- A painted limestone figure of an Egyptian scribe sitting cross-legged with a papyrus roll, with a soft belly and alert inlaid eyes.
- Standard of Ur
- A wooden box inlaid on two long sides, War and Peace, with registers of soldiers, prisoners, a banquet and a procession of tribute.
- Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx, Giza
- Three royal tombs of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure in cut limestone, with the Sphinx carved from the living rock beside Khafre's causeway.
- King Menkaure and queen
- A greywacke pair statue of the pharaoh and a queen standing with one foot forward, her arm around him, in stiff frontal poses.
- The Code of Hammurabi
- A basalt stele topped by a relief of Hammurabi receiving authority from the sun god Shamash, with almost 300 laws inscribed in cuneiform below.
- Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall, Karnak
- A vast New Kingdom temple complex with a hall of 134 massive sandstone columns, the central ones taller to admit clerestory light.
- Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
- A terraced temple set against cliffs at Deir el-Bahri, built for Egypt's female pharaoh, with colonnades and ramps mirroring the rock.
- Akhenaton, Nefertiti and three daughters
- A limestone sunken relief of the royal family under the rays of the sun disk Aten, with elongated bodies and an intimate, playful scene.
- Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin
- A solid gold coffin inlaid with enamel and semiprecious stones, showing the boy king as Osiris holding the crook and flail.
- Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer
- A painted papyrus page from the Book of the Dead showing Anubis weighing Hu-Nefer's heart against the feather of Maat while Ammit waits to devour it.
- Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
- A colossal human-headed winged bull carved in alabaster, with five legs so it reads as standing from the front and striding from the side.
- Anavysos Kouros
- A life-size marble nude youth standing with one foot forward, arms at his sides and the Archaic smile, once painted.
- Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
- A marble statue of a young woman in a belted peplos with a hand once extended to hold an attribute, retaining traces of paint.
- Sarcophagus of the Spouses
- A terra cotta sarcophagus shaped as a reclining couple at a banquet, smiling and gesturing, from Cerveteri.
- Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes, Persepolis
- A columned royal audience hall raised on a platform, approached by stairways carved with processions of tribute bearers from across the empire.
- Niobides Krater
- A red-figure calyx krater by the Niobid Painter showing Apollo and Artemis killing Niobe's children on one side and Herakles among heroes on the other.
- Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
- A Roman marble copy of Polykleitos' bronze statue of a nude athlete in contrapposto, the embodiment of his treatise on ideal proportion, the Canon.
- Acropolis, Athens
- The sacred hill rebuilt after the Persian sack under Pericles, with the Parthenon by Iktinos and Kallikrates, the Erechtheion, the Propylaia and the Temple of Athena Nike.
- Grave stele of Hegeso
- A marble relief of a seated woman choosing jewelry from a box held by her servant, framed like a small temple.